ICT Kill Zone, Fair Value Gap, Liquidity Inflection, Change of Character Strategy

Day trade Crypto using ICT Kill Zones, Fair Value Gaps, Liquidity Inflection, and Change of Character on 1-min & 15-min timeframes for entries.

Published · Updated · Methodology: ICT

Part of: Fair Value Gap (FVG)

  • Methodology: ICT
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: Daily, 1-hour, 15-minute, 1-minute
  • Markets: Crypto, Solana (SOL), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin (BTC)

Indicators used

  • ICT Kill Zone in Pivots
  • Proprietary indicator
  • Fair Value Gap (FVG)
  • Liquidity Inflection
  • Change of Character (CoC)

Source video

Decoded from: LIVE DAY TRADING - Making $18,565 (MY BIGGEST DAY EVER) by Craig Percoco — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:44 - Introduction to the trading session and goal
  • 1:40 - Chart setup and indicators mentioned
  • 2:10 - ICT Kill Zone and Pivots explained
  • 3:45 - Fair Value Gap definition and application
  • 5:40 - Higher timeframe analysis for bias
  • 6:50 - Looking for market structure and confluences
  • 8:40 - Bearish indication and fair value gap for short setup
  • 10:00 - Risk reduction and stop loss at break even
  • 12:00 - Second trade setup using 15-minute FVG and 1-minute CoC
  • 13:00 - Entry on Change of Character confirmation
  • 14:00 - Take profit levels for the second trade
  • 16:00 - Third trade: long entry on bullish FVG and break of structure
  • 18:00 - Adjusting stop loss to break even for third trade
  • 19:00 - Partial profit taking on third trade
  • 20:30 - Fourth trade: short entry on bearish FVG and liquidity inversion
  • 21:30 - Profit taking on fourth trade
  • 23:00 - Session review and summary of trades

Strategy overview

A fair value gap (FVG) marks a price imbalance left behind when a move runs too fast for both sides to transact through a level, and price often returns to that zone later. This entry doesn't teach the gap in isolation — it decodes a recorded live day-trading session from Craig Percoco, where the FVG is only one instrument on a wider ICT dashboard that also carries Kill Zones, a liquidity inflection read, and a change of character signal.

What sets this source apart is the workflow around the gap rather than the gap itself. The session is worked top-down across four timeframes — a daily and 1-hour read for bias, narrowing to the 15-minute and 1-minute charts for execution — while ICT Kill Zones frame the London and New York windows where the trader hunts for setups. Inside that structure the FVG acts as one confluence among several: liquidity inflection marks where price struggles to break through, change of character flags a possible shift in who holds control, and the gap becomes a reference watched as the session develops. The video is framed as a results recap — its title reports an $18,565 session billed as a personal record — so it shows the tools being used inside a real trade rather than presenting them as a step-by-step tutorial.

Treat that headline number as the video's own claim about a single day, not a metric you can expect or a property of the method. No mechanical rule set was extracted from this source, so this page maps how the FVG sits within Percoco's Kill Zone and multi-timeframe context, and how it connects to the other ICT concepts he leans on, rather than a defined set of entry and exit rules.

Topics

ict strategy · fair value gap strategy · liquidity inflection · change of character · crypto trading strategy · bitcoin trading strategy · ethereum trading strategy · solana trading strategy · day trading strategy · 1 minute strategy · 15 minute strategy · swing trading · pine script

Frequently asked questions

What is a fair value gap (FVG) in ICT trading?

An FVG is a price imbalance created when a fast move leaves a gap that buyers and sellers didn't fully transact through — in this source, defined as where the first candle doesn't overlap the third candle's wick in a sequence. ICT traders watch these zones because price often revisits them before continuing.

How is the fair value gap used in this video?

It's used as one confluence inside a broader ICT session rather than a standalone signal — alongside Kill Zones, a liquidity inflection read, and a change of character cue — and worked top-down from the daily chart for bias down to the 1-minute chart for execution.

Does the video prove the strategy makes $18,565 a day?

No. That figure is the video's own recap of a single session billed as a personal record, not a verified or repeatable result. It shows the tools inside one live trade, not a guaranteed outcome, and no win rate or edge is established by a one-day P&L.

How can I test an ICT setup like this before trading it?

Backtest and forward-test it on historical intraday data first, since a single recorded session says nothing about consistency. Strategy Decoder extracts the structure of strategies like this from video sources so you can study and test them on TradingView.

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